Word: sovereign
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sultan, Mulai Yusef, a big indolent man, who is supported by the French and Spanish as the puppet sovereign of Morocco. Venerable Moroccans were scandalized by his appearance at the fair en foot. Traditionally he should have arrived either on horseback or upon a portable throne, and heavily guarded in any case. Instead he dismissed his strapping Negro bodyguard at the gate of the fair and entered "practically unattended" - accompanied by only 32 Caids, four Pashas, two French Generals, and the French Resident General in Morocco, Jules Steeg...
...problem, it seems to me," continues Mr Codman, "is whether the Federal Government of this country shall actually absorb the functions of the States so that they are no longer sovereign as provided in the Constitution. Also whether the same government shall establish a paternalism over the individual citizen, directing his activities from the cradle to the gravel or whether, on the contrary, we shall return to the theory of our fathers...
Alexander I, youthful sovereign of the five-year-old kingdom of Jugoslavia,* motored gaily last week through the ominously famed city of Sarajevo. There he saw a chimney sweep-in the Balkans an omen of good luck. Smiling, His Majesty stopped the royal motor, offered the chimney sweep 100 dinars ($1.76) for two straws from his grimy brush. Astonished and suspicious, the chimney sweep refused to sell even one straw. Outraged, the royal chauffeur revealed his master's identity: "Louse of a chimney sweep! Do you defy your King...
...young Kawamura enlisted in the army of the Great Mikado, Meiji, father of the present sovereign, who proceeded to overthrow the Shogunate (1868) and restored to the present reigning house the supreme power, which it has theoretically held for 122 generations?since the dawn of Japanese history...
Observers noted that during his "five great years," as he calls them, Lord Reading was virtually a sovereign represented at London by the Secretary of State for India, a post now held by Lord Birkenhead (see p. 11). He was the first Jewish Viceroy, and at the time of his departure for India many doubted that a Jew could uphold Anglo-Saxon prestige among Moslems and Hindus. His success in conciliating Mahatma Gandhi, fomenter of Indian "resistance by non-cooperation," amply disproved the fears of anti-Semites. Last week Indians expressed pleasure at the elevation of Lord Reading...